[Popman]

Airline representatives said there were 43 passengers on the Delta Connection jet

I'm shocked!!!

The real story here is a passenger plane took off with some empty seats on board.

Every time I fly, I feel like the last fish being stuffed into a sardine can

[Don Corleone]

Was this another one of those “Land and hold short” clearances?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Did everyone wave?

[Fairview]

We fly out of BWI all the time. This really gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. BWI is not exactly the most crowded airport in the world, so one wonders what the excuse is for this. . .

[webschooner]

When someone from the media asked officials from the two airlines involved to comment on the incident, the official response was,

"What's the big commotion about? Trains pass within a couple feet of each other every day, and you guys are hassling us about 300' ?

Find some real news to report to the flying public about!"

[tickmeister]

Wow, they came within 300 feet and “no one was hurt”! I’m shocked that the intersecting force fields didn’t collapse somebodies spleen.

[org.whodat]

Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.

[Young Werther]

I was a Communications Officer in the Air Force in the late 60s when our Air Traffic Control System was upgraded from WWII technology and techniques. As Newt pointed out in the 96 election cycle, the FAA is the biggest purchaser of vacuum tubes!! ..and nothing else has changed.

With Tom Tom on the dash board you can navigate your car to the nearest Pizza Parlor after you kids soccer game. Cost? $500 plus shipping and handling!(thank you Billy Mays.) Yet a recent crash on takeoff occurred because the pilots were directed to the wrong runway for takeoff!!!!! With GPS and a laptop, none of these situations would happen. But then you would have to downsize the ATC to its needed stregnth, ZERO! Money and lives would be saved but the union wouldn't allow it!!!

Mind you with GPS and drones in the sky we can drop bombs to within inches of their aimpoint. This technology would allow us to downsize the cockpit crew to ONE! That person would be the emergency backup for the automated system which, God Forbid, would rarely CRASH!

Case closed.

[RLM]

Planes consume more fuel taking off than landing so it’s clear to me that, in the interest of fuel conservation, the landing jet should have been told to hold short before passing over the numbers and touching town.

[Cobra64]

[SuziQ]

Lord, I’m glad I wasn’t on either plane; I’d have had to change my underwear! I always watch the runways when we’re taking off and landing. I have fears of another Tenerife event.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[Redleg Duke]

"A miss is as good as a mile!"

Tough luck, trial attorneys!